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Cake day: June 11th, 2025

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  • They had the “We the people” platform, started by Obama. But Trump started ripping it apart, and Biden pulled the plug on his first day in the office.

    And even then instead of being people driven, the US administration would choose what they want to address or not. For all the excesses of EU bureaucracy, there are plenty cases like this where it prevents politicians from ignoring people’s concerns; they can still refuse to act, but at least the petition system forces them to go on record.






  • That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

    Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

    But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

    And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

    At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.